Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Garden Grove, CA Crime Grade
How Garden Grove grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of California — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
7/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
California
4/10
vs. California cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Garden Grove, CA was 231.9 per 100,000 residents (400 incidents over a population of 172,490). That puts Garden Grove Infinity% above the U.S. rate of 0.0 and 44% below the California statewide rate of 415.5.
That ranks Garden Grove #2,272 of 3,771 ranked U.S. cities, safer than 40% of them, and #134 of 371 in California. Violent crime is down 20% year over year and down 22% over the last five years.
Garden Grove, CA crime — key facts
- National Crime Grade
- C (7/10)
- California Grade
- B (4/10)
- Violent crime rate
- 231.9 / 100k
- National rank
- #2,272 of 3,771
- CA rank
- #134 of 371
- Safer than
- 40% of U.S. cities
- Year over year
- down 20%
- 5-year change
- down 22%
- Population
- 172,490
- Reporting agency
- Garden Grove Police Department
- Data year
- 2025 · FBI UCR
Reported by Garden Grove Police Department (FBI ORI CA0300900) to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program. Download the full dataset (CSV) · methodology.
About Garden Grove, CA
Also known as
- Gardengrove
Name history sourced from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) — public-domain federal geographic-names data.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Garden Grove (red), California (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Garden Grove vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2020 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 298.2(512) | 317.5(537) | 253.5(426) | 290.3(485) | 231.9(400) |
| Murder | 1.2(2) | 1.8(3) | 1.8(3) | 0.6(1) | 0.6(1) |
| Rape | 25.6(44) | 34.9(59) | 22.6(38) | 19.2(32) | 13.3(23) |
| Robbery | 88.5(152) | 88.7(150) | 80.3(135) | 69.4(116) | 67.3(116) |
| Aggravated assault | 182.9(314) | 192.1(325) | 148.8(250) | 201.1(336) | 150.7(260) |
| Property crime | 2303.5(3,955) | 2217.5(3,751) | 2024.2(3,401) | 1867.8(3,120) | 1078.3(1,860) |
| Burglary | 375.7(645) | 386.0(653) | 398.8(670) | 316.1(528) | 222.6(384) |
| Larceny | 1516.0(2,603) | 1466.7(2,481) | 1281.4(2,153) | 1248.2(2,085) | 648.2(1,118) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 401.9(690) | 347.0(587) | 334.5(562) | 286.2(478) | 195.4(337) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- What is the source of the Garden Grove, CA Crime Grade?
- FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- What metric does the Garden Grove Crime Grade use?
- Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- How is the national decile for Garden Grove calculated?
- Garden Grove's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- How is the California state decile calculated?
- Same calculation restricted to California cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- How do decile scores convert to a letter grade?
- 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- How often is the Garden Grove Crime Grade refreshed?
- Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- What are the limits of this Crime Grade?
- The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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